Monday, December 24, 2018

Winnie the Pooh: A Very Merry Pooh Year (2002), 5

G | 1h 5min | Animation, Comedy, Drama | 11 November 2002
Ring in the season with Winnie The Pooh in a holiday adventure.
Directors: Gary Katona, Ed Wexler, Jamie Mitchell.
Stars: Jim Cummings, Peter Cullen, John Fiedler.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0324572/
Watched online, good print.

6 songs in the Soundtracks. Didn't feel like there were any in the film. But someone tagged this Musical.

I still don't understand the allure of this universe.

In this tale, Rabbit gets annoyed with Tigger bouncing with Xmas bells, and moves away from the community. Everyone resolves to change their most annoying habit to lure him back. But in so doing, Piglet takes on Tigger's joy in bouncing, and Tigger assumes Piglet's lost fear of nearly everything. Pooh resolves to give up hunny (as they spell it here), which Eeyore then consumes, which changes his attitude to sunny, and Pooh's to discouraged all the time. When Rabbit finds out what they've done, he comes back and declares his appreciation of everyone the way they were, so they change back. 

Aside from the moral of appreciating your friends for who they are, this is also discouraging improvement, so it's quite a mixed message.

Not worth a repeat viewing, so 5 it is.

Rated 6.8 (1,510)

Disney, dir. various; 5